The MMO Alpha and Beta List: October 20, 2017

We aren’t seeing the typical influx of spooky or creepy Halloween like games that we so often see this time of year. This is one of the reasons the beta list doesn’t seem very active at the moment. If you’re looking to get into the Halloween spirit, check out our list of Halloween events in MMOs that are already live.

If you take a look at the list you’ll only see 4 new items this week. That’s because a lot of what happened in the industry this week had to do with delaying launches, opening up the beta to more people, and other things like that.

Starting all of that off is Shadowgun Legends which just launched their closed beta on Thursday. Because it’s the first round of closed beta, only a select number of people were invited, but you can expect more to be added over time.

Legends of Aria wrapped up alpha testing this week. They don’t have any plans yet for when they will move into beta, however.

Closers is opening up their closed alpha this weekend to allow the public a chance to give it a try, so if you’ve been wanting to try out the anime style game, this is your chance.

Life is Feudal announced they would be going into open beta on November 17th but based on the language they use, it sounds more like a soft launch than an actual beta.

The new game on the list this week is Starborne. It is a 4X MMORTS and the first game made by Icelandic developers Solid Clouds, an indie studio with industry veterans including Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, EVE Online’s former Art Director, and Hrafnkell Óskarsson, who spearheaded the design and lore of EVE Online.

And to wrap up the week, we learned that Conan Exiles’ launch will be delayed until Q2 2018. This will give Funcom more time to put polish on the game.

As always you can find all of this and more in the lists below. Keep an eye out for the new flag which will show you what was newly added this week.